The Sun. — London, England, 1818-04-18 00:00:00

THE WILES OF PARTY. FOR THE SUN. " ;lieu me in niayorem. -PL I Mr. Borroß,---1t is impossible for dissimulation to practice its fraudulent tricks, for any length of time, without eXposing itself, .by some gross in- advertence or inconsistency, in its trite colotirs to the eye of the most ordittAry observer. Some Principle recently avowed, some act recently per formed, is sure to jostle with violent collision against those assumed virtues which are put on only to serve some present purpose, and are laid aside the moment the interests of their wearer can be better promoted by qualities of an oppo- Sincerity,however minutely scruti nized, will ever be found consistent ; but the nu merous shifts and expedients to which hypocrisy is obliged to resort, in order to conceal its real aims,, must of course be, replete with incon gruity and extravagance. The grief of those ►rho were l►ire:l to act a part in the funeral proces sions of the ancients was always noisy and frantic, site nature. " Ut qui conduct; plornnt in funere dicunt " Et faciunt grope plura do!entibus ex animo." Nor: do I .donht that the ejaculations of the hired groaners at Lady Huntingdon's Chapel were au dible above those of the rest. of the Congregation. In the serio-comic exhibitions of those, who, act- ing under, the public eye, endeavour to create false impressions by a display of fictitious emo tion, the ridiculous and humiliating are frequently so commingled as to provoke, successively, our laughter and our compassion. Such, Sir, is the alternation of feeling with which I am affected when I contemplate • the ex traordinary conduct of certain perverse - persons, who have undertaken the important task of -illu minating and guiding the people by the agency of the Press ; and who,. having long ago arm : gated to themselves all the patriotism, now seem to claim the exclusive possession of all the hu• inanity, in the country. I shall not soon forget the exquisite and inimitable fact with which a late attempt in the Rouse of Commons to'sub stantiate,a charge of cruelty against Ministers, by a mi.nute and revolting detail of incidental bodily suffering, was justly exposed to the derision of the public ; .who answered the whining, the canting, aTpeal of those writers, who accused t%vo or three hundred Senators of laughter at the infirmities of " God's creatures," with merited contempt.• 'The people (properly so called) saw clearly enon.gh, that if Ogden did not wish to be come a fair and legitimate object of ridicule, - he should not have consented to make his ailings the instruments of party artifice. 'flit , people know how to gauge the feelings of the tilCll of exclu sive humanity ; for they have not lost the i-r me- The plaintive and piteous accents of commiset anion in which they expressed their sym pathy with the "-unfortunate" (for unfortunate read lucky)- Ogden cannot drive front the recol lection of the people the disgraceful amid un it cling nse which was made by these . very :nen of the grievous _calamity which lately overwhelmed us with affliction. The degree of sensibility to distress, which these pretenders to humanity really possess, will be estimated, not by their lamentations over fabricated sorrows, but by the calumnious insolence with which they were seen, on that occasion, to approach the couch of real affliction. If that detested miscreant, who 'with brutal indecency sported with those suffer ings to which it pleases the Altnigkty to subject our venerable Sovereign,----who, assassin -like, has slunk away from the indignation of his native country, having planted a- dagger in her bosom,•---- if Cobbett himself, .I say, were here, he. would be the noisiest of all the Declaimers 'against the cruelty ! of Mr. CANNING. ruori(.s .011 e of these directors of popular opinion, who is sedulously employed in sowing dissection be tween the labouring classes and their employers, seems to , have direct e d hi s attent i on, f or some time past, very particularly, to a certain manu facturing district of the first importance, which he seems to regard as a promising field for future exertion. He appears to be favoured with a re gular succession of authentic intelligence from some respectable individual, resident in that quar ter, upon whose testimony he can rely ; and upon the ex , parte information forwarded by his private Correspondent, founds the most silly but mischiev ous imputations against the Gentlemen of that neighbourhood. The opulent manufacturers are charged by him with designing to establish over their dependants an'intolerable despotism,- and to render their .condition little preferable to that of slaves. ft is affirmed by him, that the laws are deflected from their proper course, and made 'sub- servient to the arbitrary will of the master, for whose benefit alque they are contrived to be ad ministered.—" The ' law, says he, where it is good, exists not to the poor." It is asked if there is " any tiling to be wondered at in the re volutionary temper of the manufacturing orders Some foolish story is entirely invented, or some fact is so disguised as to retain scarcely one feature ot truth,—and we are then desired to say " What /notices or iiiducemelo s to affection and allegiance are there in such prHfiks as these ?" and we are infofmed by this Writer, who seems to possess the confidence of the discontented, that if certain . c(llaniniated persons were to " intrigue with the• coluhlistible materials of the orders, there is an e x wosion at hand which - no suspension of law, no vigilance of despo-Ostn, can prevent." I h0pe., ; (04 ; trustki-)is Writer's long-confirmed habits of exaggeration have led him somewhat to magnify this imminent danger : but no mail who has resided at all in some of the provinces ot that description can possibly doubt the existence of discontent- •so considerable as to - demand still the vigilance of Government. Nor is this . surpriz- - nig, while so many impure spirits are hovering over that irritable portion of our population, to t'►ke -advantage of every occurrence -that May arrele- . rate the approach of the often' announced crisis ; while, in smite districts, the distance of the Ma gistrate is so remote, and the expence and time which must be sacrificed to obtain the punishment of crimes are so considerable, that the most auda cious offenders, unawed by the immediate pre sence of tl►e law, riot in an impunity which, by the increase of vice consequent upon that la mentable deficiency, must of Utecessiy swell the ranks of the disaffected. It suits the purpose - of this Caterer for the politicians of the i►ot-house to attribute the existing spirit of insubordination to another cause, more flattering to his patrons, the mob ;. to tke' oppression and tyranny of their best friends, the wealthy men who employ them, and with whose interests their own are obviously identified. And what are these cases of injustice and coot inely which cause the people to "fester" (as he has it) under "universal discontent ?" Let us take front this Register of Grievances the first that offers itself A, is articled to 13, in a certain matoifacture, for a term of years, in regn- . lar employment, at stipulated wages. In conse quence of the decrease in the briskness of trade, 13 cannot find A full employment, and reftises to give him the wages contracted for. A, making al lo►wance for the state of trade, does not insist on the letter of his bond, but claims his li betty, and a dissolution'of the contract ; whici► 13 rufusei to agree to. The case goes before a Magistrate, who, on A refusing to accept of half work and reduced wages, and without requiring to look at the contract, commits him to a month's imprisonment in the lilt.use of Correction, which A undergoes. B again insists on the services of A,- and A still refuses him ; in consequence of which he is committed to the distant county jail, as a greater punishment, where he is now lin gerit►g under a sense of injustice more hitter than the privations of beggary and want." Upon this statement I have - to remark, that I believe it is now very generally the custom (or the maonfac torer, in his contract with a hired servant, to in sert a clause empowering him to reduce the quan tity of his work and the price of his labour, in proportion to the diminished demand for them. Either A did or• did: not subject himself to dais condition ; if he did, he had clearly no right to demand the dissolution of the contract ; and for his refusal to comply with the terms of it he was legally punished; and the writer, in omitting the mention of that circumstance, has been guil►y of his wonted disingenuousness ;—if lie did not, it is altogether incredible, nor will I believe it upon such authority, that:any Magistrate would refuse to a servant so reasonable a demand-as the dissolu tion of a contract which his master had violated. As to the non-production of the. contract, that may have arisen from the well-known nature of all 13's agreements of that kind, or front A's not demanding its production. The concluding sen tence of this candid and reraeious narrative is just such wild nonsense as any foolish refractory fel low can Falk, after he has been visited, and his mind fashioned, by some modern man of huma -72 ity. This asserted universal collusion between the Magistrate• and the Master-manufacturer to op press, degrade, and enslave the poor workman, is one of those tales for credulity, whose purpose is to keep alive the-fever of the popular mind, to create that dissatisfaction upon .which the necessity of Parliamentary Reform is to be grounded.— When the tares, Which mischievous hands have scattered, spring_ tip among the corn, the authors of the mischief reproach the negligence of the hus bandman. I shall_not,by following the bad example of this inflammatory writer, deduce universal de pravity from particular instances of misconduct.— ] know that, among the labouring manufacturers, there are very numerous and honourable examples of behaviour the most unexceptionable : but, since their masters 'ate thus - itjurionsly asperse t, I take leave to express my confident beliefv bat there are much mote of . ..insolence and ingratitude to be found in them than of tyranny in their employers. I shall state, in proof of my remark, a fact which not bung ago fell under tny own observation, and which fi is only one out of a thousand cases which is cons , arnly occurring," as our Journalist ex pressed: hinaielt. A man who has a wite and se veral chilthen, having been for some time without employment,. and being reduced to distress, applied to a friend of mine, humbly beg ging to be admitted into his manufactory. Ibis services were not wanted ; but, from a charitable consideration for his family, he and his wife were taken in and placed upon an equal footing with the best workmen. What was the return made by this wretch for such humanity ? Not very long ' after his admission, some work bring assigned to him which he did not like, he absolutely refused to petform it ; although the oldest servants cheer fully volunteered to take it from his hands. It was, however, very properly' determined that .the law should enforce his obedience. A warrant trout the Magistrate was shewn to him, which lie treated with contempt ; and feeling, I suppose, like A, " a sense of injustice more bitter than the privations of beggary and want," he swore with a round '' month-filling oath" that he would rot in jail rather titan submit. The design of this fellow, who was recuiving very large wages, was to bully his masters into a discharge of him front their manufactory; an attempt hav ing been made to entice him away ;• this not suc ceeding, he was made to do his work; and to do it well. Had this worthless ingrate possessed the heroic courage of A, he would probably have been visited in his prison by some wandering.phi lanthropist, and his case would consr'quently have been set forth in sOrne seditious London Newspaper as one of aggravated tyranny, I have been thus., minute in describing one flagrant act of ingrati tore, only in order to chew that it is a most wicked misrepresentation to insinuate that the labouring man alone is suffering under vexatious and difficulties. Much the same as the character of their huma nity is that of the regard which these politicians profess to feel for the laws. The same writer, from -whom we may expect a continuation of his Memoirs of Magisterial Oppression, is, of course, mightily scandalized at the result of the late trial, in which the itinerant Grievance-monger failed to obtain a Verdict. •He says that " whatever a Juryman's politics might be, it is his essential duty to protect the Liberty of the subject." This is indisputably true ; but it is not less evidently true that it is 'equally the duty of a Juryman to punish the Licentiousness of the subject. Now what was the doctrine addressed, by the Faction to which he belongs, to the Juries who decided that Hone's infanious parodies were not blasphemous ? . While scarcely a man could be found to deny that they were the most abominable libels upon the religion of the country that ever were published, on what ground was founded a recommendation to the Juries not to find them such ? It was 'contended that, because productions soniewhat similar (but possessing, by the bye, not one hundredth part of their malignancy) had gone unpunished, it was not the object of Ministers to protect religion, but to persecute an opponent, and that such de signs ought to be frustrated by those Juries. In plain terms, they were advised to disregard the law, because, if strictly adhered to, it would be rendered an instrument of ministerial vengeance. It was said on Wooler's trial, I believe, by a Journal which is now chiefly remarkable for two things, for its advertisements and its tergiversa tion (I quote from memory, but the substance is correctly stated), that, " although Jurors are bound by oath to attend only to the merits of the case submitted to them, their verdict will neces sarily be influenced by the actual state of their feelings; and that it is impossible but that the sympathy felt for men who have been imprisoned without trial must attend those who are brought into Court ! If prejudice against the party which prosecutes be a proper motive to determine a Jury in its decision, that which was awarded against the hawker of petitions may possibly ad mit of justification. It will be recollected that Mr. Deakin, after his sousing, exultingly exclaim ed, '' this is just what we wanted." It might, therefore, have struck the Jury that he took his station before Mr. Spode's manufactory with the two-fold intention of getting some signatures to his petition, and of tempting the men to commit an assault, and so of touching the pocket (as the phrase is) of one who was his enemy for two reasons, because he was a rich man, and hostile to Reform. But, only for the sake of argtiment, let me further suppose the parties who employed this vagrant reformer to have been men of the most unprincipled and dangerous character, that they were men who abet, in their violent and law less proceedings, a gang of " relentless ruflians," - the terror of the neighbourhood which is cursed with their presence and polluted - by their iniquity.. Let me also put it (hypothetically) that the attorney" whom they employ in their litigations, which it is his business to project, is a man of such abandoned principles, so shunned and loathed by all the respectability of the place, that the inha bitants of a considerdble town concurred, una voce, to prev en t him from obtaining a settlement among them. From this hypothesis (which contains no thing impossible) it will appear that better reasons may possibly. exist for M r . Drakin's ill success than those wh ich were thought to suffice for the impunity of a man whose principles tend to the dissolution of all'society.-. Pefhaps, Sir, I should apologize for noticing, at such length, writings which are so contemp tible in the eyes of men of reflection ; but our experience. teaches us that they deserve attention, not on account of their intrinsic merit, as com positions, but of their capacity for misckief; to which, says Burke, those talents which arc fit for nothing else are more than adequate. - I am, Sir, with respect, &c. London, Bth April, 1818. VERAX THE PRINCE REGENT'S COURT. Yesterday, at four o'clock, the PRINCE REG!? N.+ held a Court at Carlton-house. A few minutes, before four, the City Procession, with the Address on the late marriage, ,arrived in state it was composed of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen Sir Wm. Curtis, Sir Charles Flower, Schley, J. J. Sinitl, Sir J. Eimer, Birch,. Sir M. Bloxaw, Magnay, Bridges, and Cox, with the Recorder, and City Otljcers.. They were conducted into one of the. State-rooms. The Pftice entered about the same time, at tended by his Officers of State. His Royal-High ness, after giving an audience to Viscount Sid- tnnutli, proceeded to the Throne, and being there seated, surrounded by several of his Cabinet Mi nisters, the Recorder read the following Address of the Corporation to the Prince• Regent upon the Marriage of his Royal Sister,-tile Princess Eliza beth, with the Prince of Hesse tiornberg " To his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent o the United . King;loin of Great Britain and Ireland, " The humble and loyal Address of the Laid Mayor, Alder men, and Commons of the City of Loudon, in COlll2llOll Council assembled : " May it please your Royal Highness, " We, his Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, huMbly apProach yOur Royal HighnesS to offer - our sincere coagratulations on the auspi cious event of the recent Nuptials of your Royal Sister, the Princess Elizabeth, with his Serene Highnesi the. Hereditary Prince of Ilesse4lornberg. " We confidently- trust, that this alliance will he produc tive •of permanent happiness to the illustrious individuals themselves, to every branch of your august family, and to the nation.. " We indulge ourselves in the pleasing hope, that those amiable qualities which have nnifornily called' forth our :id miratimr, and adorned the high birth of the Royal ide, will secure to her every felicity in this illustrious alliance. " Permit us to repeat our unalterable- sentiments of firm and loyal attachment to his 'Majesty's Crown and Govern ment, and to • assure your Royal .Highness of our anxious de sire to contribute to the utmost of our power in whatever may promote the Welfare and 'happiness of the'United Kingdom. (Signed by order of the Court), • " HENRY WOODTHORPE." To which Address his Royal Higltne&s returned the following most gracious Answer " I thank you for -this loyal and dutiful Address. It is highly gratifying to ma to receive this testimony of the feel ings of the City of London, on an occasion so interesting to myself, and to all the Royal'FamilY." The Prince Regent afterwards held an investi-- tare of the-Bath, at which the honour of Knights Grand Crosses of the .Order was conferred upon AdMirals Sir Charlei Maurice Tole, Bart ;'and Sir George Cockburn. His Royal Ilighnesi conferred the honour of Knighthood on Francis Desanges, EN. and Geo. Aldcrton, Esq. Sheriffs. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 18113 '. FRIDAY APRL, 17. • t 6s • A Subscription Plat e o f 501. for two- I yr-olds, carryi n g - joie three, Bst. 51b. four, B s t. 131 b. fi ve , 9 s t. 41b. six a" 9st. 8111. D.M. Ld Warwick's„b. c. Troubadour, 3 yrs .......... Mr. Hill's bl. d. Tempest, by Thunderbolt, 3 yrs • ••' ' 14 Stawell's ch. f. The Ambassadress, 3 yrs •••• • • Fourteen started—The Judge placed but three-. 3 to 1 agst Tronbaaour. The Port Stakes of 100 gs eac h, h . f t. co lt s , Ssteh*'• tor°' Bst. Oh. T.M.M. The owner of the second borne ~ 4 ccire back hiS stake tr. Lake's hr. c. Gazelle Mr. Stunehewer's b. c. Manfred . Ld Foley's ch. c. YoUng Wizard D. of Rutland's cli c. Sylvarms, by Sc .............. Mr. Stonehewer's h r . f. M an f re d i ............ . Four pd. ft. 3to I agst Gazelle-2 t o I ag . ,,st•Nlanfred-4 to I ag st Wizard. T Sweepstakes of 15 4 s each, h. ft. Bst. 51b. each., • Mr. Wilsim's f. by Seliw, out of Mockbird's dam • • •''.. Mr. Rush's b. f. by O rv ill e , out o f To b osa . ........ •-• ' Mr. Watson's f. by Cervantes, dam by Skyscraper •• Even betting on Orville f. O f(' Mr. Udny's F. by Waxy, out of Briseis, Bst. 41b. -e b , ft! Thornhill's brother to Cwrw, Bst. 71h. D.M. 2 00 0' 7 to 4 "agst IVaxy c. 7st. br : i l Mr. Vansittart's b. f. by Junip er , ou t o f Segura, i ls) D. of Grafton's c. by E a t on , Bst. 7 1b . Y.C. 50g's•-`6 to Juiiipur f. Sweepstakes of 2002 s each, h. ft. WM. . Sic J. Shelley's c. Prince Pant, tip ‘Valton, Set.Lib" 4. . Two pd. ft. A POETICAL 11AN1FESTO• " The mirthful muse, which spurns at lies, " May sketch a truth in sportive guise." AT a town in the West, where Death-hunters reP airl And take different courses to catch hint when there , . By having re course , w h en th ere ' s no sort of needing: To sousing. and 'sweating-, arid purging and bletding , While others at real disease seldom shock'd are, 'Till Death draws the curtain in shape of a doctor; Prescribing pukes, blisters, and potions and pills, Either one way or other, to cure all their ills. At this modern GoLnorna, crowded so full Of Death's spoils, you may call it " The Place of aSb • I, Ttmortn"Torrcß, a man of Some means, And perhaps somewhat richer in bullion than brain s ' Had long labour'd under a vile complication, And poz'd three physicians about its causation Who trinnely agreed, that till THAT was explord, Their patient could never to health he restor'd I And THIS the wise trio had ong traced in v Thro' the nerves, lungs and l ain, liver, the head and the br aill Till, at last, their poor patient, impatient of quaekif,V o l.4 ° ' Threw their drugs in th e s i n k, an d t h e d octor s sell" But, to ! a few se'nnlghtsrhad scalcely gone by, After each, in his turn, had prunounc'd When from sickriCss's bed hale and lusty I sprilnP, o I Like the folk from the mill which grinds old peoP'' e 'oti And meeting my three quondam friends in the Crese.t_ Who thought me laid low, quit of cares and quiesce" Don't wonder, said 1, that you see me recover'dr t Since by SoLox - oN's WISDOM my case is discover'd • .; And that wisdom which flows from a fountain so P int ' Has at Once trac'd the cause, and effected the cure. bi You.eould find out no Balm 'for my deep Wounded het tj tralt ThO' your - worships' deep skill suck'd brains and i t Rut to slimy what had snacli'd flout death past ", e . , a i! Read the words BALM OF GILEAD" on this little pia This is truth, let incredency say what it Will. • lo Witness—Timomy Tormt, of TottQrdown cie our you think my right name is conCeard from Y I must die, 'Ask at No. 13, and they'll tell you, Who's Who. in. any of the C ourts . LAw.--N o thi ng i nterest i ng occurred yeste; A 1 - -a We have received accounts from N ew s°ll o e•l Wales to t h e B t h o f S eptember last , a nd hidv pleasure to an n ounce t h e sa f e a rr i va l at !ar t if* Jackson of the Almorah, Capt. 11PKEss° c- ", the unusually short sua c e o f f our mont hs 0 11 ‘' day from the Norc, , :vith convicts and troorJ r e Not a single instance. of mortality had occ (1 : 1 on bona!,, and- all the convicts were latv ie- e l• ~ health and s pi r i ts ; an d suc h ha d h„, t he ex c io t lent regulations of the Master and 60r;c""', t o ol the. necessity -of i punishment ,04 arisen. The- Col on y ‘vas '' in the rn.)st condition. The Pilot, with convicts fruit' •i:eth for i whole . safety som e apprehensious 114 ,q:::V 9)1 D iit '. d arrived, man's Land. and would shortly plocre" fila• There Avere also ther e or , tilda, Canada, an d Di c k,- w hi c h h a d ree d ,, nl. A /do4o rived with troops from C or k. The Mr' :beer' Captain L AMB , was d a il y expecte d, havIII ji parted with by th e. Alinorah off the coas t O ' • zl, all well. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, F RIDAY , APilli' 17 Cid 0. . Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight A oistm dam 37 0 36 6 C .F. 11 II 4 e 11 sun 11 I u c x . , ; ' 2 l i: 5l 3 4 4 9.1 . • 94Mp 9 trg• 24 4° 1 na 4° :kt"°':et ' E g• e' t irg 142 fl 40 ,Etrec 291 Ditto, at Sight • Rotterdam Antwerp Hamburgh Altona Paris, 3 Day's date . Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto FranWorton the Main Madrid Cadiz Bilboa Gibraltar Barcelona Leghorn 24 70 Genoa... 471-V en i ce, I ta l . Li t . 431 ..5t -Naples a. ?C r 0%. Palermo Lisbon Oporto • Rio Janeiro ..... 91. C0rk..... 91 tier. Cent. Agiu of the Bank on Holland.... 2 per Cent. L. 4 1 " g per ° P 4 1 0 5 - • BULLION. Portugal Gold, in Coin. Foreign Gold, in Bars., tie w Dollars COAL AI IRKET April .7• Ships at Market. Ships sold. 01 Newcastle Cinders e 435:: _ . BIRTH. vidY On the 16th instant, in. •Upper Baker-street; the Donald Mackay, Esq. of a son. Tho i r ‘ •pe l7 , t----RrED. On Tbursday, at Esq. only sun of Charles Harrne go ri'ef' 0 daughter of John Harney,Esq.- ' • Esq..• - , Lod , ;c• _______---°' ________ of •.11,o,FL_ _____ __ DIED. ' r Loth On Wednesday last, Thomas Bowcrbanks Esq• • c '' bury, aged 78. On the 15th inst. at her house in Edward -street, porinlYl„: yearNori.irc.ht„9oCnarleoyiine mid, square, Mrs. Gray, widow of the late -Edward Gray', P I aged 73. mouth, on Sunday morning last, ag - ed 39 ; Dr* 300 id Clarke, late Physician to the Nottingham Hospitl; Scc• refit On the Ist inst. Mr. Abraham Hitchin, of Gerrard-st" Solio.• _ _..-- --**.%/I'. — --- --- LONDON: Printed byi. B. 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